Plus Heather Woods Broderick, Wand, The Soft Cavalry, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks

Apr 19, 2019By Mark Redfern

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. It was slim pickings this week for truly inspiring new tracks, but there were enough to recommend to put together this week's list. We also realized their were two songs we should've included on recent Songs of the Week lists but neglected to, so we've given them special mention here. More

King’s Mouth Out Now via Warner Bros.

Apr 15, 2019By Christopher Roberts

This past Saturday was Record Store Day and one of the more notable releases was a brand new album by The Flaming Lips, King's Mouth. And while the complete album remains a Record Store Day exclusive for now, one of its songs, "All For the Life of the City," has been officially released online. More

Plus The Flaming Lips, Robyn, Sigur Rós, Jeff Tweedy, and Others

Feb 28, 2019By Christopher Roberts

The full list of 2019 Record Store Day releases has been revealed. Record Store Day goes down on Saturday, April 13 and just in case you don't already know, the basic idea is to get music fans out to their local independent record store, with the bait being a slew of exclusive limited edition releases. More

In Homage to David Bowie and Bing Crosby

Dec 20, 2018By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips have shared a cover of two holiday classics, "Peace on Earth" and "Little Drummer Boy," which they have mashed up together. The track was shared via a strange video that features most the band in strange makeup and alien outfits, all except Steve Drozd for some reason, who is dressed fairly normally. More

Plus Wooden Shjips, James Blake, HAERTS, Mutual Benefit, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks

May 25, 2018By Christopher Roberts

It was a bit tough putting together a Songs of the Week this week. Chalk it up to the Memorial Day three-day weekend I guess, but for whatever reason artists, publicists, and labels weren't overeager to release a lot of great new tracks this week. More

Listen to Episode One of Sorcerer's Orphan: A Song By Song History of the Flaming Lips

May 25, 2018By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips are releasing a new best of simply entitled Greatest Hits Vol. 1on June 1 via Warner Bros. It will be available on vinyl featuring 11 tracks or as a 3-CD and digital deluxe edition featuring 52 tracks, including a disc of B-sides and rarities. More

Greatest Hits Vol. 1 Due Out June 1 via Warner Bros.

May 11, 2018By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips are releasing a new best of simply entitled Greatest Hits Vol. 1on June 1 via Warner Bros. Now they have shared a new video for rarity "The Captain," which was record during the sessions for 1999's The Soft Bulletin, but never made the album. More

Greatest Hits Vol. 1 Due Out June 1 via Warner Bros.

Apr 28, 2018By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips have announced a new best of simply entitled Greatest Hits. It will be available on vinyl featuring 11 tracks or as a 3-CD and digital deluxe edition featuring 52 tracks, including a disc of B-sides and rarities. More

Song Released on Record Store Day on 7-inch Pressed with Beer

Apr 23, 2018By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips released a new song on Record Store Day (which was on Saturday), "The Story of Yum Yum and the Dragon." The band teamed up with Dogfish Head Alehouse to make a beer called Dragons & Yum Yums, which was the official beer of Record Store Day, and the song was released on a special 7-inch pressed with the beer (with the B-side fittingly titled "Beer in Your Ear"). More

The Artists Will Cover Each Others Songs

Aug 29, 2017By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips and Mac DeMarco are embarking on a co-headlining tour together next month. Now Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has announced via an Instagram post, that both artists are working on a split EP where they each cover three songs by the other artist. More

Oczy Mlody Out Now via Warner Bros.

Aug 24, 2017By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips released a new album, Oczy Mlody, in January via Warner Bros. Now they have shared a 10-minute long video for the album's "Almost Home (Blisko Domu)." As with most of their videos, it's completely nuts, very colorful, and has a science fiction bent. More

Oczy Mlody Out Now via Warner Bros.

Aug 04, 2017By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips released a new album, Oczy Mlody, in January via Warner Bros. On the Record Store Day in April the band also released the "live(ish)" album Onboard the International Space Station Concert for Peace. More

"Our First 100 Days" is a new anti-President Donald Trump project. The good folks behind the "30 Days, 30 Songs" anti-Trump campaign during the election have teamed up with Secretly Group for "Our First 100 Days." More

Issue 59 Also Includes Interviews with The Avalanches, Death Cab for Cutie, The Divine Comedy, Rose Elinor Dougall, Foxygen, Jagwar Ma, Jim Jarmusch, Jens Lekman, Mogwai, My Morning Jacket, The Radio Dept., R.E.M., Savages, Weyes Blood, and Much More

Dec 30, 2016By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our joint Best of 2016 / 15th Anniversary Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar's app and the magazine app Readly. The print version is about to ship out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon (as well as available soon digitally via the magazine apps Zinio and Readbug). The issue celebrates the best albums of 2016, reflects on Under the Radar's 15th anniversary and albums released in 2001, looks forward to albums due out in early 2017, and features The Flaming Lips on the cover. There's also a big article examining how the music industry has changed in the last 15 years and in our Artist Survey section various musicians comment on the music and events of 2016. More

Oczy Mlody Due Out January 13, 2017 via Warner Bros.

Dec 16, 2016By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips are releasing a new album, Oczy Mlody, on January 13, 2017 via Warner Bros. Previously we were treated to videos for "The Castle" and "How??" Now here's another song from the album, "Sunrise (Eyes of the Young)." Listen below via either Spotify or Apple Music. More

Oczy Mlody Due Out January 13, 2017 via Warner Bros., Tour Dates Announced

Oct 21, 2016By Christopher Roberts

Yesterday The Flaming Lips announced a new album, Oczy Mlody, which is due out January 13, 2017 via Warner Bros. The first single, "The Castle," was shared at midnight on streaming sites and now the song has a video. More

The Amazon Original Series Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street has featured various different artists doing covers and tomorrow an EP featuring four the covers is being released and you can stream it below. More

August Issue Also Features The Toadies

May 11, 2016By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips are set to make a guest appearance in issue #6 of X-Men '92. The Marvel Comics series takes place in 1992 and in the X-Men '90s continuity. The band even appears on the cover of the issue. Never mind that it's the current lineup of the band on the cover and they look like they do now, Wayne Coyne's grey beard and all, than how they did in 1992. More

With Special Guest Chewbacca

Apr 20, 2016By Christopher Roberts

Last night The Flaming Lips stopped The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to cover the late David Bowie's "Space Oddity." Frontman Wayne Coyne performed part of the song on the shoulders of Chewbacca. Before their performance, Coyne shot a funny backstage video where he sang a song that went through some of his musical influences and revealed that he once hit a deer with his car and is actually in the witness protection program. More

Some Covers, Some Originals (+LCD Soundsystem and Will Butler)

Dec 31, 2015By Christopher Roberts

We here at Under the Radar are taking most of Christmas and New Year's off. Still, over the holiday a few notable artists have posted some Christmas songs (some covers, some originals) that we didn't have a chance to post and they are collected here. Included are Future Islands, Mac DeMarco, Lauryn Hill, Miley Cyrus (with a little help from The Flaming Lips), Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz, LCD Soundsystem, and Will Butler. More

Heady Nuggs: 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic Out Now via Warner Bros.

Dec 01, 2015By Christopher Roberts

The Flaming Lips performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night. But instead of doing a track from their recent Miley Cyrus collaboration or 2014's With a Little Help from My Fwends, the band performed their 1995 song "Bad Days," a track from Clouds Taste Metallic. More

Stream Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz Now, Watch Video for "Dooo It!"

Aug 31, 2015By Christopher Roberts

Last night Miley Cyrus hosted MTV's Video Music Awards (VMAs), another pointless and over-scripted awards show in which Twitter feuds were resolved and Kanye West announced he was running for president in 2020 during his rambling 13-minute acceptance speech. More

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of the Best of 2014 Issue, which is about to hit newsstands and will be out all of January and February. It features St. Vincent on the cover and interviews with some of the artists behind 2014's best albums. More

Musik, Die Shwer Zu Twerk Out Aug. 19

Jun 10, 2014By Mike Hilleary

The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd have announced the formation of a new side-project dubbed Electric Würms, which will release its debut album Musik, Die Shwer Zu later this summer on Aug. 19. More

Featuring Fred Armisen and Jon Daly

Apr 01, 2014By Mike Hilleary

YesterdayThe Flaming Lips digitally released Flaming Side of the Moon, an "immersive companion piece" designed to be simultaneously played alongside Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon or the 1939 classic motion picture The Wizard of Oz. More

Out Now Digitally

Live at L.A.'s Staples Center

Feb 24, 2014By Mike Hilleary

Just as they threw their support behind the likes of mainstream pop artist Ke, The Flaming Lips demonstrated their equal-opportunity love for anything weird last night when they appeared as the special guest of Miley Cyrus during her concert at L.A.'s Staples Center. More

Perform "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"

Feb 07, 2014By Mike Hilleary

Throughout the week the Late Show with David Letterman has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Beatles appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show by having its musical guests play covers from the Fab Four's catalogue of songs. More

Selling Limited Edition Chocolate Skulls With 12'' EP

Feb 03, 2014By Mike Hilleary

Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has announced that he will embark on new round record store appearances this month, meeting and greeting fans and signing reissued copies of the band's first ever release, The Flaming Lips 1st EP. More

Performing in Aspen, CO for New Year's Eve

The Flaming Lips EP in Packaged Chocolate Skull Available for Purchase

Dec 17, 2013By Mike Hilleary

Later this week The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne will be embarking on a solo "Record Store Tour," meeting and greeting fans and signing copies of the Lips' first-ever EP, The Flaming Lips 1st EP, and The Flaming Lips 2nd Cassette Demo.More

Last Box of Sparklers Tribute Album Currently in Process

Dec 12, 2013By Laura Studarus

In 2010, Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous committed suicide. To keep the late singer/songwriter’s memory alive, a group of artists—including Phantogram, Mercury Rev, and Mark Lanegan have come together to cover the artist’s iconic works. More

The Flaming Lips' Albums Ranked from Most Essential to Least Essential

Nov 08, 2013By Cody Ray Shafer

Welcome to Ranked, our recurring series in which one of our writers takes an artist's catalogue and ranks all of their official studio albums from most essential to least essential. The order is decided by the individual writer, rather than our editors. If you disagree with our ranking then please let us know in the comments section. This time Cody Ray Shafer ranks The Flaming Lips. More

Inspired by Ender's Game

Oct 23, 2013By Mike Hilleary

After contributing a song to the upcoming film adaptation of Orson Scott Card's sci-fi story Ender's Game, The Flaming Lips felt so inspired they decided put together an entire EP's worth of material based on the story's concept and themes. More

On Tour With Tame Impala This Fall

Jul 22, 2013By Cody Ray Shafer

The Flaming Lips have released a new video of a live performance of "Gates of Stell," off of Devo's Freedom of Choice.In typical Flaming Lips fashion, the video is full of trippy video effects and glittery psychedelia.More

New Governor Let Executive Order Expire

Apr 12, 2013By Mike Hilleary

For the past several years The Flaming Lips' track "Do You Realize??" has served as the official rock song for the band's home state of Oklahoma. Turns out this is no longer the case as Governor Mary Fallin decided not to renew former Governor Brad Henry's executive order granting the song its unique title. More

Space Babies Are Ugly

Apr 02, 2013By Mike Hilleary

"Ashes in the Air," a collaborative track between The Flaming Lips and Bon Iver that was featured on the former's guest-heavy LP The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, has landed itself a characteristically bizarre music video. More

Retrain Your Brain

Mar 13, 2013By Mike Hilleary

After making an appearance in a Super Bowl ad for Hyundia earlier this year, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has returned to the world of television commercials for the good people at Virgin Mobile. More

Premiere Film A Year In the Life of Wayne's Phone

Mar 05, 2013By Mike Hilleary

Leading up to the April 2 release of their forthocoming new album The TerrorThe Flaming Lips have confirmed their upcoming appearance at this year's SXSW Festival in Austin with a pair of performances. More

Just in Time for Valentine's Day

Feb 05, 2013By Mike Hilleary

Graduating from edible vaginas, skulls, and fetuses The Flaming Lips have announced that they have partnered up with a Dallas-based chocolatier to create a series of anatomically correct chocolate hearts, each containing a USB mix of music called Songs of Love. More

"Wayne Coyne’s Human Head Shaped Tumor"

Nov 26, 2012By Mike Hilleary

After providing an unintended bomb scare bringing a disarmed hand grenade to the Oklahoma City Airport, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne returned to his more planned bit of craziness this past weekend by airing a own one-hour radio special called "Wayne Coyne’s Human Head-Shaped Tumor." More

Conflict-Free Nakedness

Aug 27, 2012By Mike Hilleary

In case you may have somehow missed it or outright forgot, The Flaming Lips experienced a significant dust up with musical artist Erykah Badu when the band uploaded an unapproved NSFW music video for their Heady Fwends collaboration "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." More

Featuring Grizzly Bear and The Flaming Lips

Aug 01, 2012By Mike Hilleary

Kicking it up a notch from last year's StePhest Colbchella '011: Rock You Like a Thirst-icane, Stephen Colbert announced last night that for StePhest Colbchella '012: Rocktaugustfest! that he would be throwing a little soiree on a little boat called the U.S.S. Intrepid. More

Glitter, Blood, and ...

Jun 01, 2012By Mike Hilleary

Announcing just yesterday that they would be releasing their formly exclusive Record Store Day album The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends on June 26, The Flaming Lips have now debuted a music video for their Erykah Badu-collaborated track, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." More

The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends Out June 26

May 31, 2012By Mike Hilleary

Previously only available as a Record Store Day exclusive and blood-filled collector's item, The Flaming Lips collaborative album The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends will now be released in both digital and physical CD formats on June 26. More

10 Copies, $2500 Each

May 04, 2012By Mike Hilleary

Always looking for the next weird thing to do in the realm of musical distribution The Flaming Lips recently pressed a limited number of vinyl copies of their collaborative Record Store Day album Heady Fwends with actual samples of blood from the album's contributors, including Chris Martin, Ke, Nick Cave, Erykah Badu, and others. More

Emotional Crescendo

Apr 12, 2019By Jasper Willems

A chronicle about the enshrined, severed head of a giant metallic Deity King feels apropos of no other band but The Flaming Lips. Wayne Coyne, the group's tirelessly impulsive ringmaster, chats with Under the Radar about the group's latest bewildering project, King's Mouth. More

A Glance in the Rearview

Sep 28, 2018By Kyle Mullin

Long before they became known for dazzling concertgoers with bright lights, confetti, and a frontman bounding about in a space bubble; long before they hit it big with the melancholy single "Do You Realize?"; and long before they put out deluxe reissues of their earliest recordings; before all that, The Flaming Lips took hold of hammers and began wreaking havoc on the piano they had just recorded melodious music with. More

In 2001, when Under the Radar's first issue was released, the music industry had reached a transitional moment. In January, Apple introduced its iTunes program to the world, laying the groundwork to forever change how listeners interfaced with their music. More

Coyne on Earliest Childhood Memories, House Fires, the Disappointing Future, and Getting in Trouble as a Kid

Feb 25, 2016By Cody Ray Shafer

For Under the Radar's 13th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2015. We asked them about their favorite albums of the year and their thoughts on various notable 2015 news stories involving either the music industry or world events, as well as some quirkier personal questions. Here are some answers from Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips. More

Lost in Transition

Dec 18, 2015By Cody Ray Shafer

For a certain segment of Flaming Lips fans, the purest hallmark of nostalgia isn't Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots or The Soft Bulletin, but the band's less experimental, but undeniably solid, mid-career '90s output, including 1996's Clouds Taste Metallic. Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, The Flaming Lips have released a three-disc reissue via Warner Bros. More

Wayne Coyne on Why He Isn't Into Conspiracy Theories, How They Couldn't Make The Soft Bulletin Again, Immortality, and Angry Beatles Fans

Feb 20, 2015By Cody Ray Shafer

For Under the Radar's 12th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2014. We asked them about their favorite albums of the year and their thoughts on various notable 2014 news stories involving either the music industry or world events, as well as some quirkier personal questions. More

Hurts So Good

Jul 08, 2013By Matt Fink

Wayne Coyne tells a story about when his father died, years ago, and his mother wanted to remember him by playing their favorite Tony Bennett song at his funeral. For her, the song represented a treasured memory—being 17 years old and falling in love—and she wanted to experience that one more time with her husband before was laid to rest. Coyne remembers reacting badly to her request. "I thought, 'Why would you want to play that? My God, that's just going to devastate us. Why the fuck would you want to play that?' But you have to play it. You want to play it, because if you don't, you don't get to relive any of that." More

Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (Deluxe Edition)

Warner Bros.

Jul 12, 2018By Cody Ray Shafer

The Flaming Lips' back catalogue seems impervious to age, evolving through cutting edge sounds and increasingly psychedelic performances, while consistently appealing to a certain demographic of dazed youth. More

With a Little Help From My Fwends

Warner Bros.

Nov 14, 2014By Cody Ray Shafer

Anyone lamenting The Flaming Lips' later work as too experimental and inaccessible might find With a Little Help From My Fwends a refreshing detour. Not because it breaks from that trend—it doesn't—but because the safety of a classic Beatles record allows them to stretch their experimental legs while still producing a grounded experience. More

The Terror

(WARNER BROS.)

Apr 11, 2013By Hays Davis

"There’s a little spaceship/Hiding in the clouds/You want it to love you/Its peaceful voice is loud.” The opening line of The Terror could describe The Flaming Lips themselves as they prepare to land with an unsettling new mission. More

The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends

Warner Bros.

Jul 04, 2012By Alee Karim

Is that Ke fondling Wayne Coyne's foot? It certainly is... The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends is a collaborative record that is perhaps the most surprising and surprisingly fun album The Flaming Lips have ever released. And that's saying a lot (because, come on, this is The Flaming Lips).

Off Festival 2010 Day Three Recap - The Flaming Lips, The Ravonettes, and others

The third day of a festival is always a bit tough. Sore feet, musical overload, sunburn—it’s a lot to take in. But then, there’s day three of the Off Festival—which proved to be an exception. And not just because I ended up in an orange jumpsuit by the end of the night. More

Embryonic

Warner Bros.

Oct 15, 2009By Frank Valish

It's hard to believe it's been 10 years since The Flaming Lips released their genre-busting masterpiece The Soft Bulletin. That album changed the game for experimental independent musicians and helped pave the way for indie rock to come. These days The Flaming Lips are elder statesman in a much younger person's scene, but they continue to push boundaries with the best of them. More